| Description |
xxvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Everyman's Library ; 338 |
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Everyman's library ; 338.
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| Note |
Translated from the Turkish. |
| Summary |
Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant and newly divorced Ipek, a friend of Ka's youth, whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends on Kars, violence between the military and local Islamic radicals begins to explode, and Ka finds his sympathies drawn in unexpected and dramatic directions. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Journalists -- Turkey -- Fiction.
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Turkey -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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| Added Author |
Freely, Maureen, 1952-
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| Added Title |
Kar. English
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| ISBN |
9780307700889 US $24.95 |
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0307700887 US $24.95 |
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9781841593388 UK |
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1841593389 UK |
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